We have been studying some of the miracles of Jesus. A miracle is an instant act of God. We learned about Jesus healing a man so he could get up and walk, people with leprosy, a woman just touched the garment of Jesus and was healed! Jesus brought people back to life that had died! Jesus did miracles to prove who He was, the Son of God.
This lesson is found in these scriptures: Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:35-44; Luke 9:12-17 and John 6:4-13.
Jesus took a boat
to a deserted place to be by Himself. But the crowds of people heard about it, and they followed Him on foot from the cities.
Jesus has been teaching a couple years, so people want to see
Him. Luke tells us there were about 5,000 men, so we need to add the woman and children, and that is a lot of people! (Luke 9:14)
When
Jesus went out, He saw the crowds and was stirred by sympathy for them. Jesus went
to them and healed the sick.
Later in the day,
the Disciples came to Jesus and told Him
that they were in a deserted place, and it is late. We
should send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding villages and buy themselves some food.
Andrew told Jesus that there was a boy that has only 5
Barley loaves of bread and 2 fish. (John 6:9) The bread in Jesus’ time is not like
ours. They are small, round, about 4 inches, and about ½ inch thick. They were
poor people's bread, but still good food. The fish was probably to put on the
bread, like sardines or tuna. (From John’s account and the way he worded the
fish) It was enough for the boy that gave the food to the Disciples, but not
enough for this crowd.
Jesus
said: “Bring them here to Me.” Jesus
told the crowd to sit on the grass in groups. It’s Spring and the people sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. The men sat apart in
groups and the women sat together in groups with the children. This made it
easy to divide up the food they would need.
Jesus took the 5 loaves of bread and
the 2 fish and He looked up into heaven, and praying to God, Jesus gave thanks for
the food. This is a great
example of praying and thanking God for our food before we eat. Then Jesus handed it out to the people. He did the same
with the fish.
When
everyone had enough to eat, Jesus told the Disciples to collect the extra food
because they didn’t want to waste anything. After the Disciples collected all
the food, there were 12 baskets left over! Remember there are 12 Disciples and
there were 12 baskets of food left over. Read the Bible verse: So, they all ate and
were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by
them. Now after seeing this miracle, more people believed in Jesus.
I created this easy to make project for this lesson. If you cut a slit along the top of the basket and attach a piece of paper glued on the back (around the outside edges only), the kids can add and remove the fish and loaves. There is a teacher visual like you see above, and the basket and food can be printed in color or black & white. This includes assembly directions. You can download everything here.
You can also make this basket and food here.
Or you can purchase small real baskets or use disposable bowls with a piece of cloth or napkin (or paper towel). Add the
fish & bread for the students to take home. You can find the fish here.
Bible verse: Luke 9:17
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Is there any way you could translate the worksheet Jesus feeds the 5,000?? I'm going on a mission trip.
ReplyDeleteLinda, you can find that and some others here in Spanish: http://www.biblefunforkids.com/2014/06/life-of-jesus-worksheets-in-spanish.html
DeleteIf Spanish isn't what you are asking for, I can try Google translate for this specifically. Thanks!